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President Joe Giulietti reaffirmed Metro-North’s commitment to ensuring the safety of its customers and employees and to improving service reliability, and addressed the railroad’s considerable progress in these two priority areas during recent testimony before the Connecticut General Assembly Transportation Committee.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) today announced that Music Under New York’s 28th annual auditions will be held on May 19, 2015, in Grand Central Terminal, setting the stage for a day of great performances featuring local talent in Vanderbilt Hall.

An estimated 40,000 Long Island Rail Road customers face significant delays over the weekend of Saturday, May 16 and Sunday, May 17 when the Railroad suspends train service between Hicksville and Mineola during demolition of the Ellison Ave. Bridge in Westbury.

As a reminder to riders, MTA New York City Transit is reissuing a series of car cards and a MetroCard urging customers to: Stand back. Don’t become a statistic. Printed in five languages, the car cards utilize NYC Transit’s well-known red and green pictograms which outline safe (green) and unsafe (red) behaviors. This message will also be electronically displayed on MetroCard Vending Machine screens.

Sales of MTA Bridges and Tunnels' popular On-the-Go tags in cash lanes reached a major milestone with the purchase of the 500,000th tag since the program began in 2011, as new signs at toll plazas showing the substantial discounts available for E-ZPass customers have spurred sales of the popular tags. “This shows that efforts to get people to switch to E-ZPass and maximize their toll dollars are working,” said MTA Bridges President James Ferrara. “We will continue to encourage drivers to make the most of the E-ZPass programs provided by MTA Bridges and Tunnels to find what works best for them.”

This Sunday, May 3, New York City will host the TD Five Boro Bike Tour, attracting more than 30,000 cyclists from around the region and beyond. The MTA is the best way to get to the ride safely and on time.

Ridership is on the rise for Metro-North Railroad, according to 2014 MTA ridership figures. Metro-North and the MTA's other commuter railroad, Long Island Rail Road, remain the busiest railroads in the nation.

Ridership is on the rise for the Long Island Rail Road, according to 2014 MTA ridership figures. This makes the commuter railroad the busiest passenger railroad in the country with the MTA's other commuter railroad, Metro-North, as the second busiest.

Ridership is on the rise for the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad, according to 2014 MTA ridership figures. This makes the two commuter railroads respectively the busiest and second-busiest passenger railroads in the country.

Good news for weekend riders of the [L] train. Starting Friday, April 24 -- New York City Transit is providing a free MetroCard transfer from the Broadway [G] to the Lorimer St [J][M] station for the time periods when the line is not running from Brooklyn to Manhattan (weeknights until 5/22 and weekends until 5/18). The free transfer will provide [L] line customers with an additional option to and from Manhattan while NYC Transit personnel continue construction work on the [L] Line and comes as a result of a request from State Senator Martin Dilan, State Senator Daniel Squadron, Assembly Member Joseph Lentol, Assembly Member Maritza Davila, and Councilman Stephen Levin. The free transfer will only be available during the time periods that service on the [L] is suspended.

Metro-North Railroad, along with the Long Island Rail Road, has received funding to improve the safety of signal systems. Governor Cuomo announced today that the Federal Railroad Administration has approved a loan of $967.1 million to begin the work. The loan, which is the largest and lowest-cost financing for the MTA, will finance the installment of positive train control, a technology designed to remove the potential for human error that can lead to train-involved accidents.

The MTA's two commuter railroads have received funding to improve the safety of signal systems. Governor Cuomo announced today that the Federal Railroad Administration has approved a loan of $967.1 million to begin the work. The loan, which is the largest and lowest-cost financing for the MTA, will finance the installment of positive train control, a technology designed to remove the potential for human error that can lead to train-involved accidents.

The MTA's two commuter railroads have received funding to improve the safety of signal systems. Governor Cuomo announced today that the Federal Railroad Administration has approved a loan of $967.1 million to begin the work. The loan, which is the largest and lowest-cost financing for the MTA, will finance the installment of positive train control, a technology designed to remove the potential for human error that can lead to train-involved accidents.

Zerega Av and Buhre Av [6] stations reopened Monday, April 27 as the MTA has substantially completed the rehabilitations, which were part of a five-station renewal project on the Pelham Line. The two subway stations will reopen for service in both directions at 5 a.m. on Monday, April 27.